[BrianR]

I canna get to a command prompt. I can get into the BIOS and that's about it. I can get the Advanced Options menu, but no matter what I choose, I get the same error message. "Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and selected hardware."

Nothing else happens. I can boot from a floppy, if I can get one that is for WinXP Pro, but that's what I don't have.

And my project to install WinXP Pro on another machine has failed, but damn if I know why. I ran the install normally and it went swimmingly, until it booted WinXP for the first time, which is when it goes to a black screen and stops there. No booting, no HD activity, nothing. Frozen. Trying again does the same thing. I wonder if that PC isn't able to handle the OS? I think it's a PII, which is what *I* have, and it worked on mine until I buggered it, so WTF? Where's that number for Dial-A-Geek?

I wonder if a neighbor has a machine that can produce a rescue disk?

Brian